Dear Glycoinfomatics Consortium (GLIC) members
Thank you all for participating in GLIC. This is the first official email to all participants.
Currently, we are all facing various issues in our respective research in glyco-informatics.
For example, the extension of the GlycoRDF ontology is one of high priority, in addition to methods for glycan format conversion, 3D representations, automated annotation of glycomics experiments, etc. Therefore, we would like to hold an online discussion in July, as well as an offline meeting at the Warren Workshop in August (http://warrenworkshop2016.glycoinfo.org), with those who can participate. Please fill in the following Doodle Poll to indicate when you will be able to participate:
http://doodle.com/poll/dss85v8nyb2wh6bn
We have also created a document to share the discussion topics for these meetings, at the following link:
GLIC Meeting 2016 <- Click here
Please write in any topics/problems that you would like to discuss in this document. We will then try to cover as much as possible during our meetings. There are already a few issues listed in this document. When you add a topic, please also include your name.
We are also considering to create a few GLIC working groups to cover the various topics. There is already a WURCS working group (WURCS-WG), which we would like to continue under the umbrella of GLIC. Please add any working groups and your name into the working group(s) you are interested in joining. We will decide on group leaders during our meeting.
Information exchange and cooperation is of utmost importance. We welcome your active participation!
Issaku Yamada
Kiyoko F. Aoki-Kinoshita